@PhlipElder said in Apple Abandons the Mass Market, as the iPhone Turns Luxury:
@Dashrender We've done network audits for all-Mac or blended-Mac companies and there's a particular mindset that seems to come on the Mac side that one rarely find on the PC side. It seems to carry over to the other lines as well in my experience.
Oh of course - for normal end users. And sadly for some IT personal as well.
Heck, we just hired someone who said they had to have a Mac because Macs don't get viruii. /sigh

@PhlipElder said in Tracking People in Their Homes with WiFi Signals:
10-4. Radio Imaging sorta.
The idea has been around for a long time? I seem to remember movies having this type of thing happening?
It's a bit like X-Ray. It's all just non-visible light, but with different sources, bounce patterns, and penetration. Wifi is interesting because it is so common and "bright". There is just so much of it, everywhere.

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@Dashrender said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@SanWIN said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:
@Dashrender Direct water cooling looks like more effective, taking into account that you have to burn (generate heat) something to produce an electricity to cool the hardware with the traditional air conditioning. But I do agree that it still could affect the nature.
Especially if you can couple this with offshore wind, solar, wave, or current generation systems.
This might be crazy thinking - But I wonder how much we are affecting our physical world by tapping energy directly out of it - i.e. taking heat energy from the planet, pulling energy from wind, from wave, etc. In writing that - I'm wondering if there might just be less thermal bleedoff? I know the planet gets a ton of energy from the sun, I'm pretty sure it's what powers most of our weather, so maybe it's a non issue?
It's mostly a non-issue. We're affecting it more with CO2 and other gases then we are through wind, solar, and geothermal.
CO2 is not the boogieman it's made out to be. There are lots of other reasons to prefer moving things to have less impact on the environment. I think it's that most people aren't capable of understanding those other reasons that a boogieman like CO2 is used, most people think they understand less=good more=bad.
There are whole bodies of research on why excessive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are bad for the environment and people living in those environments. It's not a new thing and knowledge of it has been around for decades...
The key word is excessive. Take a look at the historic CO2 values to get the idea.
Huh? Even past concentration didn't really hit the point where we are today. IIRC the highest (and climatically volatile period) was only ever ~300PPM CO2 at least from the measurements of ice cores. We're well into the 400PPM CO2... So I'm not sure what you mean by look historically.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/04/dr-vincent-gray-on-historical-carbon-dioxide-levels/
HAHAHAHAAAHAH
In New Zealand, he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_R._Gray

@DustinB3403 said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:
@gjacobse said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:
@DustinB3403 said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:
@scottalanmiller said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:
They should put solar power on glaciers! Someone call Argentina, Chile, and Greenland. This is a huge opportunity!
The issue with glaciers is that they can be treacherous, difficult to work on and vastly unstable.
Man made reservoirs on the other hand would be level and easily accessed.
Just putting solar production on every reservoir in the US would offset a lot of coal power.
Sadly you can't just put solar on every reservoir in the US.... There is the entire pleasure craft industry... as well as fishing both for food and sport...
You can still put solar on these reservoirs. You don't have to fill the entire reservoir with solar, although that might be ideal.
True, even just a little coverage helps a little.

@black3dynamite said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:
@travisdh1 said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:
@scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:
@travisdh1 said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:
@black3dynamite Aha! They both did it! Yes, I have a thing about an entire desktop worth of space getting forced down into one little bar, and the menu being at least 2 clicks deeper than it was.
Why is the menu deeper? I don't prefer this setup either, but it's no deeper. It's still a button on the desktop for me.
Because as the admin/geek, everything I want/need to use is a submenu of the all programs menu. Granted I mostly just favorite a terminal emulator and be done with it, but it is much farther to move around and menus for me to get through. Give me Cinnamon with a hotkey set for the menu any day.
As long as the search function works, I usually find what I need by searching for it.
^ this

@NerdyDad said in Musk went on firing spree over slow satellite broadband progress:
@scottalanmiller You don't have to go all that far to find really crappy Internet, even though we aren't even in the slightest of poorest countries. Glad to see that somebody is doing something with all of their money and power to help the rest of humanity.
Yeah, but even rural America with the worst options, you have the options of leased lines, bad satellite, moving, fixed wifi, etc. It's awful, but never as limited as being in a country where free Internet (free as in freedom) doesn't exist, or there is no provider at all that you can legally use.

@romo said in Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid:
Just got the email, Twilio is acquiring Sendgrid.
https://www.twilio.com/blog/twilio-to-acquire-sendgrid
I believe this is a good acquistion. Both parties are growing at decent percentages and it fills a gap in Twilio's platform.
On the investment side - Buy the Dip.

@jaredbusch said in H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies:
@phlipelder said in H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies:
@mlnews said in H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies:
Mercury News- H-1B furor: Canada smooths the way for techies
Two weeks: That’s how quickly a foreign technology worker in Silicon Valley can get an employment permit from Canada. In the U.S., that process takes months.
As the administration of President Donald Trump has increased scrutiny of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers and plans to ban their spouses from holding jobs in the U.S., Canada has been moving aggressively to suck top foreign talent out of Silicon Valley and other technology-rich regions of the U.S.
The Canadian government won’t say if it’s leveraging the tumultuous and uncertain immigration climate in the U.S. But experts say Canada’s year-old “Global Skills Strategy” program, which offers work permits similar to America’s H-1B visa, is ideally structured to attract highly skilled foreign tech workers to Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Though immigrants make up just 20 percent of Canada’s population, they hold about half of the science, technology, engineering and math degrees at the bachelor’s level and above, government figures show.
Before the program launched, Canada’s employment permit process for skilled workers took months.
“It captures all of the Silicon Valley people, and it captures them quickly,” said Asha Kaushal, a professor at the University of British Columbia law school who studies immigration law.....
Heh, wait until they get their first tax bill.
Umm, been to Chicago lately? And we don't get shit from it.
Heh … we don't have much to show for it either.

The US really needs this competition. They say that the latency is low on 5G with 2-4ms, but the FCC claims Verizon FiOS is 10ms. But as a FiOS user, I can tell you, it's definitely 2-4ms all the time.

@scottalanmiller said in New Alexa Devices Announced:
@dashrender said in New Alexa Devices Announced:
@rojoloco said in New Alexa Devices Announced:
@scottalanmiller said in New Alexa Devices Announced:
Alexa Wallclock
A traditional clock, but you can talk to it.
Who is this even aimed at if schools no longer teach kids how to read analog clocks?
that's funny - I was wondering too - is Jeff Bezos trying to bring back analog clocks?
I think the majority of wall clocks remain analogue. You might disagree, but I feel like most people find analogue clocks to be a lot more attractive. People think of analogue clocks as fancy decor for their house, digital is more for bathrooms or bedside tables.
No I don't disagree.

@jaredbusch said in Veeam drops the ball, exposes 440M Customer E-mails:
@dbeato said in Veeam drops the ball, exposes 440M Customer E-mails:
@phlipelder said in Veeam drops the ball, exposes 440M Customer E-mails:
@dbeato said in Veeam drops the ball, exposes 440M Customer E-mails:
@phlipelder said in Veeam drops the ball, exposes 440M Customer E-mails:
https://www.veeam.com/executive-blog/veeam-data-incident-resolved.html
I did not see anything about it in our Partner communications until this thread and I sent a quick question to our rep. The above was their reply.
And you didn't get the email?
No. I just went through all of our Veeam correspondence with nothing about it there.
Interesting, I got the email the afternoon of that day. But anyhow.
He's not a customer.
He is a partner, I understood that.